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. . . ~ ~~ HILLS MEMORANDUM DATE: April 17, 2006 Agenda Item 7.E TO: Mayor and City Council FROM: James Lehnhoff, City Planner f I SUBJECT: PC # 06-010 Guidant Corporation 4100 N Hamline Avenue Master Planned Unit Development (PUD) 6th Amendment and Site Plan Review for parking lot modifications Back!!round The applicant is requesting a Master Plan PUD (6th) Amendment and Site Plan Review to complete the following projects: . Constmct a new 157 stall parking Jot on the south side of Guidant Drive South; . Remove a portion ofthe median on Guidant Drive South and replace the parallel parking spaces with 90 degree parking spaces on thc south side ofthe road, which will increase thc total number of parking spaccs on Guidant Drive South from 88 to 99. The north side of the road would no longer have parking; . Remove 68 parking spaces from the eastern side oflhe Arden Woods office building parking lot (Updatcd since the Planning Commission mceting); . Remove the access to Lcxington Ave from the Arden Woods office building; and, . Construct a landscaped berm along Lexington Ave in place of the removed parking spaces and access to Lexington Ave. The Arden Woods office building, which was purchased by a subsidiary of Guidant Corporation, is not part of the Master Plan document prepared by Guidant in 2002. However, Guidant has indicatcd that the property will likely bc incorporated into the Campus Master Plan. For the purposes of this application it is assumed that the Arden Woods property will become part of the overall Guidant Campus; however, the requests in this application do not preclude Arden Woods from acting as a separatc conforming property in the future if necessary. lIMelro-inet.lIslardenhiilslPfoltflinglPlanning Cases\2006\06-0JO Guidant site plan and PUDamendment (PENDING)1041706 ~ CC Report- Guidon! Variance. doc Page 1 of 5